Lodge Resources & Education

Bartlett Lodge #211 F.&A.M.

Annual BBQ Fundraiser & Community Support

The brethren of Bartlett Masonic Lodge #211 F.&A.M. cordially invite you to join us in celebrating our annual BBQ.

For more than thirty years, Bartlett Lodge #211’s Annual BBQ has served as a primary fundraising event benefiting our lodge and various charitable activities. Proceeds directly fund grants and scholarships for graduating Bartlett High School students who embody Masonic values, demonstrate academic success, and contribute positively to our community.

We stick to the traditional method: selecting top-notch 8–10 lb. pork Boston Butts, seasoning them with a special homemade spice mix, and smoking them slow and low for 8–10 hours to serve hot and fresh.

• Orders & Pre-Orders: Pre-orders can be placed through our online Lodge BBQ Store (deadline applies prior to the event).

Link to our BBQ Store

Community Grants & Scholarships

Bartlett Lodge #211 is committed to supporting our local youth and educational development through community grants and high school scholarships.

(Scholarship application forms and grant submission requirements are made available through the lodge ahead of the annual awarding period.)

Bartlett #211 Grant Link

Bartlett Oakhouck #216 Grant Link

Masonic Teachings & Education

“To set the Craft to work …and give them good and wholesome instruction for their labors.”

By improving Masonic education within your Lodge, you gain knowledge of the craft of Freemasonry and help to improve Masonic retention of your brethren.

The mission of this section is simple: Masonic education builds Masonic retention.

Foundational Education Topics:

• The Symbolism of the Square and Compasses: Introduced early in your Masonic career, the Square and Compasses are featured in all Lodge meetings and represent core moral and spiritual lessons.

• The Background to Today’s Lodge: The Charges of a Freemason define a Lodge as a place where Freemasons assemble to work and instruct themselves in the mysteries of the ancient science.

• The Three Great Lights: The emblematic lights of Freemasonry: the Volume of the Sacred Law, the Square, and the Compasses.

• Symbols in Masonry: An exploration of how 5,000 years of historical symbolism became a prominent feature of modern Freemasonry.

• The Volume of the Sacred Law: An essential foundation to the institution of Freemasonry and a central fixture in every open Lodge.

Musings: When is a Man a Mason?

By Rev. Joseph Fort Newton

When he can look out over the rivers, the hills, and the far horizon with a profound sense of his own littleness in the vast scheme of things, and yet have faith, hope, and courage—which is the root of every virtue.
When he knows that down in his heart every man is as noble, as vile, as divine, as diabolic, and as lonely as himself, and seeks to know, to forgive, and to love his fellowman.
When he knows how to sympathize with men in their sorrows, yea, even in their sins—knowing that each man fightsa hard fight against many odds.
When he has learned how to make friends and to keep them, and above all how to keep friendswith himself.
When he loves flowers, can hunt birds without a gun, and feels the thrill of an old forgotten joy when he hears the laugh of a little child.
When he can be happy and high-minded amid the meaner drudgeriesof life.
When star-crowned trees and the glint of sunlight on flowing waters subdue him like the thought of one much loved and long dead.
When no voice of distress reaches his ears in vain, and no hand seeks his aid without response.
When he finds good in every faith that helps any man to lay hold of divine things and sees majestic meanings in life, whatever the name of that faith may be.
When he can look into a wayside puddle and see something beyond mud, and into the face of the most forlorn fellow mortal and see something beyond sin.
When he knows how to pray, how to love, how to hope.
When he has kept faith with himself, with his fellowman, and with his God; in his hands a sword for evil, in his heart a bit of a song—glad to live, but not afraid to die!

Such a man has found the only real secret of Masonry, and the one which it is trying to give to all the world. 

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